Earth shattering news for GNSS, commercial availability of Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC)
Mxsmanic wrote:
How sensitive are these CSACs to other environmental variables? What about
shock, or position? Are they robust enough to be used in wris****ches and
portable timepieces (disregarding cost)?
Which reminds me: why are there no wris****ches that use GPS just for a time
reference, without the geolocation functions? Or are there? Seems like there'd
be a market for such watches to replace "radio-controlled" watches depending
on WWVB and the like, if the price isn't too high. They wouldn't need a CSAC,
although that would be a nice bonus.
Radio controlled watches do the same thing more cheaply,
and work in most of the inahabited world,
at a much lower power consumption.
There would be at best a small niche market for such a thing,
Jan
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